Ni Weigong was born in Chongming Island, Shanghai. At that time, my family was in a difficult situation and I could barely afford food. I only went to school until the fifth grade of elementary school. Because the Japanese army invaded China, the whole family went to Shanghai to seek refuge.
As early as his childhood, Ni Weigong was influenced by his father, who was a teacher, and developed a strong interest in the art of traditional Chinese calligraphy and painting. He often wrote paintings by himself, and he was already writing well at the age of 11. When he was seventeen or eighteen years old, the villagers asked him to write an inscription on a plaque. At the beginning of liberation, he wrote the masthead for the "Workers and Peasants Daily" published in Chengdu. Later, Ni Weigong taught at Miaozhen Primary School in Chongming Island. After being recognized by university professors, he strengthened his confidence in learning calligraphy.
When he was in Shanghai, Ni Wei was admitted to the Difficult Children's Middle School, so he studied for another year and a half. After dropping out of school, he worked as an apprentice to beg for food - he sold books at Shanghai Zhongyi Bookstore, worked at the Yongsheng Textile Turning Factory, and worked at Mouchang Optical Company for 7 days.
In the mid-20th century, in pursuit of progress, Ni Weigong came to Sichuan to join the revolution. Ni Weigong used teaching at Lixin Accounting School as a cover to engage in underground work. Later, he was condemned by the Chongqing underground party and traveled to Chongqing, Chengdu, Luzhou and other places to carry out revolutionary activities. Ni Wei founded the Luzhou New Democratic Liberation Society, instigated the Kuomintang general Huang Ao from western Sichuan to revolt in Chongqing (the current city of Chongzhou), and organized Chengdu citizens to welcome the People's Liberation Army into the city.
After the founding of New China, Ni Weigong studied at Southwest People's Revolutionary University and Southwest Military and Political University. After graduation, he worked in military cultural education in the Southwest Military Region. Later, he worked in the Gusong Grain Bureau in Xingwen County, Yibin City, supporting local construction. In 1957, the right-wing "hat" was suppressed, and Ni Weigong was sent to Gusong, Xuyong and other places in southern Sichuan; in the 1960s, Ni Weigong was sent to work as a custodian at a grain station in Fenghuang Village, a remote mountainous area in Xuyong County. In Fenghuang Village, I stayed there for decades.
In 1988, Yang Zonghong, who was still a middle school teacher at the time, saw Ni Weigong’s calligraphy and found Ni Weigong and worshiped him as his teacher. Ni Weigong stayed with him for 6 years.
At the end of 1992, with the approval of the Organization Department of the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee, the Organization Department of the Luzhou Municipal Party Committee issued a document to completely rehabilitate him, restore all reputations and implement the retirement policy. The implementation of his rehabilitation and retirement policy was so late that it may be unique in Sichuan and even the country.
At 5:48 a.m. on April 13, 2015, Ni Weigong died of illness in Luzhou, Sichuan at the age of 91.